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Update From Nebraska

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"Legislature rebuffs bid to repeal death penalty," is Paul Hammel's update for the Omaha World-Herald.For a second straight day, opponents of the death penalty suffered a setback in the Nebraska Legislature. Just before noon Tuesday, lawmakers rejected, 33-13, an effort to repeal capital punishment in Nebraska. State Sen. Brenda Council, who represents north Omaha, had introduced an amendment to repeal the state's death penalty as debate began Tuesday morning. Similar measures have been rejected three times in the past three years. But Council said she had been upfront in her plans to introduce a repeal measure during this year's debate on lethal injection. The state has been without a legal means to carry out the death penalty for the past 14 months, after the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that electrocution -- the state's current method -- was unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).